My Bare Lady

My Bare Lady

Author: Velvet Amour

Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency

Published: 2017-11-07

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 1681819694

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As I climbed into a large basket in the centre of the stage, I was terrified. On the other side of this vast wall of red curtains was an audience of 200 people. And here I was, a country girl wearing a costume I made from the curtains in my caravan. Inside my basket, I was so nervous I felt sick. What am I doing? How am I going to pull this off? Then it occurred to me, how the hell am I going to get out of this basket without toppling over? I could hear the emcee start my introduction: “And now, the glamorous, the gorgeous, Velvet Amour, performing the Dance of the Seven Veils.” The music started, and then it happened. All the people, the nerves, and fear washed away. I elegantly flowed out of the basket and became someone else. No longer a frightened young girl from the bush, I was powerful. I was magnificent. I was home. My Bare Lady is the autobiography of one of Australia’s original burlesque queens. It is a story of sacrifice and joy; failure and success; pain and pleasure. Discover how Velvet became one of Australia’s brightest stars, and how she waded through the gritty underworld she had to overcome to get to the top.


My Bare Lady

My Bare Lady

Author: Romance Smartypants

Publisher:

Published: 2019-10-29

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9781949202137

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Suzie Samuels is the only thing standing between Clifford and his life's work. All he has to do is change everything about her. Perception creates reality and Clifford Rutledge needs the irascible stripper to prove it. Suzie Samuels is set to prove once and for all she's more than Short Fuse Suze, stripper for the Black Demons and renowned motorcycle arsonist. If all it takes is hard work, then Suzie knows how to work it hard. But Suzie's scandalous spirit tests Clifford resolve. And Clifford's buttoned-up bullying is driving Suzie bonkers. Can Clifford move past their differences long enough to pull off the impossible task of changing the bare lady into a fair lady? More importantly, as perceptions shift and priorities change, will he want to? 'My Bare Lady' is a full-length contemporary romantic comedy, can be read as a standalone, and is book#1 in the Scorned Women's Society series, Green Valley World, Penny Reid Book Universe.


My Unfair Lady

My Unfair Lady

Author: Kathryne Kennedy

Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.

Published: 2009-12-01

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 1402246803

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A Library Journal Editor's Pick! "Those who relish unconventional, outspoken heroines; dark, cynical heroes; and a plot spiced with a soupçon of danger ...should find Kennedy's Victorian romance version of My Fair Lady quite entertaining."—Booklist Summer Wine Lee peeked through the drapery covering the second-story window of their rented London town house, hoping to catch a glimpse of the man she intended to hire to change her life forever. The impoverished Duke of Monchester despises the rich Americans who flock to London, seeking to buy their way into the ranks of the British peerage. So when railroad heiress Summer Wine Lee offers him a king's ransom if he'll teach her to become a proper lady, he's prepared to rebuff her. But when he meets the petite beauty with the knife in her boot, it's not her fortune he finds impossible to resist. Frontier-bred Summer Wine Lee has no interest in winning over London society—it's the New York bluebloods and her future mother-in-law she's determined to impress. She knows the cost of smoothing her rough-and-tumble frontier edges will be high. But she never imagined it might cost her heart. A delightful combination of the Wild West and English society, My Unfair Lady, is an unusual Victorian historical romance. Fans of Jennifer Ashley, Lorraine Heath, Madeline Hunter, and Christi Caldwell will be enraptured by this tale of an American heiress, a British Duke, and finding love and acceptance just the way you are.


Keeping the British End Up

Keeping the British End Up

Author: Simon Sheridan

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781905287543

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Simon Sheridan traces the history of the British sex film from its beginnings in such coy nudist camp films as 'Some Like It Cool' (1960), through to its boom years with the Confessions films and their many imitators, to its demise following censorship clampdowns and the arrival of home video in the 1980s.


No Place for a Lady (Heart of the West Book #1)

No Place for a Lady (Heart of the West Book #1)

Author: Maggie Brendan

Publisher: Revell

Published: 2009-01-01

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1441203621

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Crystal Clark arrives in Colorado's Yampa Valley amid the splendor of a high country June in 1892. After the death of her father, Crystal is relieved to be leaving the troubles of her Georgia life behind to visit her aunt Kate's cattle ranch. Despite being raised as a proper Southern belle, Crystal is determined to hold her own in this wild land--even if a certain handsome foreman doubts her abilities. Just when she thinks she's getting a handle on the constant male attention from the cowhands and the catty barbs from some of the local young women, tragedy strikes the ranch. Crystal will have to tap all of her resolve to save the ranch from a greedy neighboring landowner. Can she rise to the challenge? Or will she head back to Georgia defeated? Book one in the Heart of the West series, No Place for a Lady is full of adventure, romance, and the indomitable human spirit. Readers will fall in love with the Colorado setting and the spunky Southern belle who wants to claim it as her own.


Pretty Good Advice

Pretty Good Advice

Author: Leslie Blodgett

Publisher: Abrams

Published: 2020-04-07

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 1683358848

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“[A] new literary genre, the MBA Memoir . . . Delivers 97 pearls of warmth, wit and wisdom from the most inspirational entrepreneur I have ever met.” —Frances Edmonds, bestselling author of Repotting Your Life Called the “Queen of Beauty” and the most influential lone woman to impact the beauty industry since Estée Lauder by the New York Times, Leslie Blodgett’s story is anything but ordinary. As the CEO of BareMinerals, she reinvented how beauty was sold by tapping into the power of community before the idea of social media existed. In 2006, Blodgett took the company public in one of the largest cosmetic IPOs of the decade, and in 2010, the company was acquired for $1.8 billion. Pretty Good Advice is her next chapter. This refreshing book features 97 candid and entertaining insights on business, life, and beauty. Personal and often surprising, Blodgett dishes on leading with humor, why wearing blush and reading obituaries are two of the most optimistic things you can do, and why you owe it to your coworkers not to be boring. Pretty Good Advice is full of frank, actionable advice to help light a fire under you. “If you want to laugh, get totally inspired, learn a bunch and enjoy reading something so engrossing you won’t put it down but you could because it’s written in these amazing one-ish-page chunks, GET IT. Could not be better for right now.” —Jean Godfrey June, Beauty Editor, GOOP “A moving and clear-eyed memoir of an extraordinary life. Charmingly made-up as a how-to guide, Leslie chronicles that life in vivid and memorable lessons that jump off the page.” —John W. Evans, author of Should I Still Wish


Bare

Bare

Author: Susan Hyatt

Publisher: BenBella Books

Published: 2019-03-05

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1948836173

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Get ready to shed everything that's weighing you down, treat your body like a beloved friend, and seize each day like you mean it! You are a badass, whole woman with big dreams, big feelings, and big potential. What are you hiding behind that shield of overeating? Who do you want to be when you put down the shield and take on life's battles Bare? In her second book, Bare, Susan Hyatt presents an empowering approach to transforming your body and your life. Inside this book, you'll learn: • How to treat your body with care, love, and respect—not hateful criticism • How to shed everything that's weighing you down, physically and mentally • How to de-stress at the end of the day without relying on excessive food, alcohol, Netflix binging, and other habits that clog up your mind and drain your energy • How to stop obsessing about your body and focus on the priorities that really matter in life—like dominating in your career, writing your novel, learning a foreign language, contributing to your community, or otherwise making your mark on the world This is a must-read book if you want to take excellent care of yourself, upgrade your mental and physical health, build confidence, conquer your goals, crush the patriarchy, and look and feel damn good doing it. Bare is not a weight-loss plan. It's a life-gain plan.


Brazen and the Beast

Brazen and the Beast

Author: Sarah MacLean

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2019-07-30

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 0062691988

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New York Times Bestselling Author Sarah MacLean returns with the next book in the Bareknuckle Bastards series about three brothers bound by a secret that they cannot escape—and the women who bring them to their knees. The Lady’s Plan When Lady Henrietta Sedley declares her twenty-ninth year her own, she has plans to inherit her father’s business, to make her own fortune, and to live her own life. But first, she intends to experience a taste of the pleasure she’ll forgo as a confirmed spinster. Everything is going perfectly…until she discovers the most beautiful man she’s ever seen tied up in her carriage and threatening to ruin the Year of Hattie before it’s even begun. The Bastard’s Proposal When he wakes in a carriage at Hattie’s feet, Whit, a king of Covent Garden known to all the world as Beast, can’t help but wonder about the strange woman who frees him—especially when he discovers she’s headed for a night of pleasure . . . on his turf. He is more than happy to offer Hattie all she desires…for a price. An Unexpected Passion Soon, Hattie and Whit find themselves rivals in business and pleasure. She won’t give up her plans; he won’t give up his power . . . and neither of them sees that if they’re not careful, they’ll have no choice but to give up everything . . . including their hearts.


No Standing, Only Dancing

No Standing, Only Dancing

Author: Susan Van Wyk

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780724103003

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Looks at the works of the popular Rennie Ellis, whose Life is a Beach photographs helped cast him on the world stage as a documentarian of contemporary Australian culture.